Vitamin D Levels in Children With Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis

Vitamin D status in recurrent aphthous stomatitis

Introduction Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is a common chronic inflammatory oral mucosa disease with an unknown cause. However, dysregulation of the immune response seems to play an important role in this disease. Aim To evaluate the vitamin D status in RAS patients and its effects on RAS severity, given the likely immunomodulatory function of vitamin D in the human organism. Material...

Recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis

Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is a common disorder affecting 5% to 66% of examined adult patient groups. There may be a female predominance in some adult and child patient groups.1–4 The ulceration usually commences in the second decade,5 although 40% of selected groups of children can have a history of RAS, ulceration beginning before 5 years of age, the frequency of affected patients ri...

Recurrent aphthous stomatitis.

Salivary interleukin 2 levels in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis during active ulcerative and healing period

Background and Aim: Recurrent aphthous stomatitis(RAS) is one of the most common oral mucosal injuries. Various studies have shown Contradictory and varied results about inflammatory cytokines and the biological dimensions related to this complication.This study aimed to compare salivary interleukin-2 levels in patients with recurrent aphthous stomatitis (in the active ulcerative and healing pe...

Serum antibody levels to Helicobacter Pylori in patients with recurrent Aphthous Stomatitis

Background: Recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS) is a common disease, which several etiologic factors have been considered for it. The infectious agents and immunological factors are the most suspected causes. Recently a few studies with varied results have been done to clarify the role of Helicobacter Pylori (H.pylori) in etiology of RAS. Objective: To find correlations between serum IgG and Ig...